[JDEV] Voice over Jabber

[Steve Kennedy]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:00:42PM -0700, Jeremy Nickurak wrote:

> On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 18:52, Sameer Verma wrote:
> > Has anyone looked into doing a vorbis stream p2p once the session is 
> > established? vorbis at 8k mono is fairly good for voice.
> > Sameer
> If it's voice you're looking to transpit, Speex [ http://speex.org/ ] is
> probabbly a better choice. It's an alternate codec, tuned more for the
> purpose of voice compression than music. Speech in particular is
> fundamentally simpler then music, and can be compressed to a much
> smaller size while maintiaining quality, provided you know it's speech
> you're working with. :)

There are already good systems for transferring voice between
people, and these are already well defined for Internet users.

VoIP or probably SIP are suited for actually doing the transfer
and surely an interface into existing technologies would be better
than re-inventing the wheel. MSN does this now with SIP, but doesn't
actually handle the SIP call itself ...

Steve

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